On May 1, 2022, my first fantasy novel was published. Persephone's Mare, revisits the setting of my Small Town Series, but 50 years in the future!
This is the novel in which I use all of my knowledge of and experience with horses to tell an exciting story of a girl who is displaced in time and space. Unknown to 17-year-old Persephone Gwilt, he mother was a witch. Not only that, she was born in a land that is invisible to everyone in the small town of Pine Oak, Florida.
It seems that Persephone's mother had a rare gift--one that made the bad elements of her home world, Equidona, want her dead. And Persephone has inherited the this odd gene. Transported to Equidona by the odd twins Cleopatra and Ana Delorier, Persephone, under a false name, is soon immersed in the daily life of a horse training facility. She even begins dating a Uaine girl named Bon, who can speak to plants.
But the Rogue Wizards are tracking her down. And they're getting closer and closer.
This book took several years to write. For accuracy, I have confirmed my knowledge of the horse world by consulting several expert riders and trainers as subject experts and beta readers. And indeed, I have tried to make horses equal characters in the magical world of Equidona--a land that had not yet discovered technology but is sliding into ruin by using magic as a substitute for creativity.
